October 08, 2017 Archive October 2017
Does modern neuroscience help us understand behavior?
Blade Runner’s chillingly prescient vision of the future
Dear Elon Musk: Your dazzling Mars plan overlooks some big nontechnical hurdles
America’s biggest divide: winners and losers
American plutocrats are running for political office across the country. Will democracy survive?
Rex Tillerson's agony, and ours: Trump's revolving door will keep spinning
SNL: Surprise guest Jason Aldean opens with Tom Petty's "I won't back down"
Gun control and history: It's never been about the Second Amendment
A trailblazing new law in Illinois will dramatically expand temp workers' rights
SNL's "Weekend Update" on guns: "No one should own 47 of anything"
Who you gonna call?: Edison's science of talking to ghosts
Better call Becerra: The planet’s lawyer
Charlie Sykes: The GOP is "in the thrall of the NRA"
You never know where your allies are going to come from: "Bending the Arc"
5 reasons Trump's sports taunts could really hurt him
Thoughts, prayers, and the five stages of media tragedy distillation
Richard Spencer leads torch-lit white supremacy march in Charlottesville
NOLA's floods could taint Landrieu’s legacy
Against Mars-a-Lago: Why SpaceX's Mars colonization plan should terrify you
Can L.A. save the planet? City's "zero waste" plan could be a model
How does the developing brain learn to perceive the world before it can see it?
The case for de-extincting Ice Age megafauna
Erik Prince is considering a Senate run in Wyoming: Report
The GOP has nominated a maniac for Senator in Roy Moore
Where our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle theory of great art comes from
Sen. Bob Corker: The White House is an "adult day care center"
The 10 most overrated Halloween films
Noisy, but that’s not all: the health threat posed by leaf blowers
David Simon in conversation with Salon: "You gotta learn the cadence of people’s lives"
Road trips can be life changing for women, so why doesn't Hollywood want us behind the wheel?
Charles Blow: Republicans welcome mass murders like the Vegas shooting
Trauma is the American experience
Women's labor, sex work and U.S. military bases abroad
What I learned when I became a bureaucrat
Are self-driving cars the future of mobility for disabled people?
Bronies, the adult male fandom for “My Little Pony,” might be the best male-led nerd group for women